Investigations
PHR Research on Darfur
PHR's Darfur Survival Campaign is supported by research conducted during three trips to the Darfur region. Investigators traveled to the Chad-Sudan border to interview survivors of the genocidal attacks and to Darfur to document the devastation of three villages. Their findings are presented in two reports, The Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in the Conflict in Darfur, and Darfur - Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Restitution and Justice.
Assault on Survival documents the systematic destruction of villages in Darfur by the Janjaweed, who burned down houses, schools and markets, destroyed crops and looted livestock and household possessions. With their homes destroyed, no crops or animals to sustain them, and their attackers pursuing the sometimes for days, the survivors had no choice but to flee to the desert. Many perished in the unforgiving environment; others, reached relative safety in Chad. PHR has cited Article IIc of the Genocide Convention in support of its view that the Janjaweed and the Sudanese government are responsible for genocide in Darfur. Article IIc defines genocide as deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
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